The Education of Pan

The Education of Pan is a lost c.1490 tempera on canvas painting by Luca Signorelli. It was in the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum in Berlin but was moved to the Flakturm Friedrichshain during the Second World War. There it was destroyed in a fire in May 1945 just after the end of the war.

Black and white photograph of the work.
Cartellino with Signorelli's signature.

It was the most significant commission by Lorenzo the Magnificent and was described by Giorgio Vasari as a painting of "nude gods" painted for him by Signorelli.[1] It was recorded at the Palazzo Pitti in 1687 and then moved to the Palazzo Corsi near San Gaetano in 1865. Marquis Della Stufa then sold it in Florence, where Wilhelm von Bode acquired it for his museum in 1873.

References
  1. Paolucci, cit., p. 259.

Sources
  • "Article at the palazzo Medici-Riccardi".
  • 'Luca Signorelli' in Antonio Paolucci, Pittori del Rinascimento, Florence, Scala, 2004 (ISBN 88-8117-099-X) p. 21.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.